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Future Astronaut Training Program
Distance: 0.5 Mi1100 North Plum Street
67501 Hutchinson -
Abundant Life Child Care
Distance: 1.9 Mi1505 E 20th Ave
67502 Hutchinson -
Coffee Time
Distance: 40.5 Mi1857 N Mosley St
67214-1347 Wichita -
Spice Merchant & CO
Distance: 42.1 Mi1308 East Douglas Avenue
67214 Wichita -
Spangles, Inc
Distance: 42.8 Mi437 N Hillside St
67214-4917 Wichita
Description
Shout it from the rooftop! At least from the rooftop of the SOON TO BE FORMER BW Radio world headquarters at 1700 West 17th. It's been our home since 1953. But sometime around New Year's Day 2007, we will working in our new location at 9th and Main, south of the Hutchinson Public Library, in what was the Commerce Bank building. And thanks to Perky for the picture around the ORIGINAL Morning Show table, circa mid-1950's (L-R) Bob Hanna, John Powell, Bill Scott, and Dick Fraley! May 28th, 1935. Hutchinson's first radio station, KWBG went on the air, the ninth in Kansas according to information from the Kansas Association of Broadcasters. From the City of Hutchinson's website, hutchgov.com: "In the midst of this difficult period (the Great Depression), Hutchinson was given the gift of its first radio station. KWBG, "Keep With Bill Greenwald", broadcast its first signals in May 1935, from the second floor of the Great American Life Building in downtown Hutchinson." The next time you visit the Reno County Museum at Avenue 'A' and Walnut, you can say you've been in the original home of KWBG and KWBW Radio! Thanks to Wilma 'Perky' Perks, who worked at BW from 1957-1991 as the original host of the Party Line program, along with information gathered at the Hutchinson Public Library and the Reno County Museum: In 1940, BG became BW Radio after Mr. Greenwald sold his company, Nation's Center Broadcasting, to Bill and Bess Wyse of Austin, Texas. Originally with 100 watts, BW Radio...